So both countries maintained their claims to sovereignty.

Are there universal human rights that transcend conflicting claims of particular cultural traditions?

This was the fatal blow to Tver's aspirations for supremacy in Russia.

Instead, the US urged that competing claims be resolved through negotiation.

Although dynastic pretenses crept in from the start, formalizing this in a monarchic style remained politically unthinkable.

Receipt of the corresponding compensation payment by the undersigned shall be in full and final settlement of all such claims .

Faced with the evidence of this illegality, the judge...closed the case!?...

But can a couple of quarters of economic growth support claims of recovery?

In return, Henry renounced his claim to many of the territories that had been lost by King John.

Dogs live in the present without anxiety, and have no use for the pretensions of abstract philosophy.

And because they practised usury although it had been forbidden them and for using others' wealth unjustly.

By quoting his past writings, I showed, first, that Krugman s repeated claims to have been right about everything in his economic commentary are false.

Of Hitler he wrote Führer struck me as a somewhat ridiculous figure, with his theatrical posturings and his bombastic pretensions.

The Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia in October 1853 and suffered a major defeat that gave Russia control of the Black Sea.

On other issues notably immigration Obama rejects claims of states rights and insists on federal authority.

Better to assert one s knowledge unequivocally, especially if past academic honors certify one s claims of expertise.

Aiming to silence the legitimate claims of these men, an operation of the armed forces was mounted to crush diminish the rebels.

The emperor also relinquished all claims to the Spanish throne, and promised to support Spain in its attempts to regain Gibraltar.

Her godfather was Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias and one of her best friends was the first lady of Brazil, Nair de Tefé.

Two senior branches of the ruling house, those of Kashin and Kholmsky, asserted their claims to the grand ducal throne.

Shortly after they met in 1354, Cola di Rienzo was assassinated, and Giannino waited two years to report his claims.

The example of the Cynic's life (and the use of the Cynic's biting satire) would dig up and expose the pretensions which lay at the root of everyday conventions.

But the real question now is whether America is still able and willing to uphold its global pretensions.

Since then, of course, this Europe with pretensions to federalism is now more than ever financed like the commonplace intergovernmental organisation it actually is, but which it refuses to see itself as.

Modern scholarship has disproved his claims, however various horned gods and mother goddesses were indeed worshipped in the British Isles during the ancient and early medieval periods.

BOSTON September 11, 2001, may at least at first seem like an inappropriate addition to the history of nationalism, given Al Qaeda s explicitly stated global pretensions.

A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution.

Later he claimed the recognition as the metropolitan church of the Kingdom of Galicia, against the rights of the church of Braga, metropolitan since at least the days of Martin of Dumio.

The place was proclaimed a city in 1580 by its notables, after support for their attempt was declared by Dom António, Prior do Crato, to preserve Portuguese independence against the ambitions of King Philip II of Spain (Philip I of Portugal).

Any reimbursement payment under the scheme shall be made on condition that the receipt of such payment is in full and final settlement of all the participant 's claims arising from the specific payment affected by the malfunctioning .

Unlike orthodox Marxism, which merely applies a ready made template to both critique and action, critical theory seeks to be self critical and rejects any pretensions to absolute truth.

The possibility occurred to her mother, Augusta, of marrying Amélie to the Emperor of Brazil, as a better alternative to guarantee the pretensions of the House of Leuchtenberg to royal status.

In the Peace of Anagni in 1176, Frederick recognized Alexander III as pope, and in the Peace of Venice in 1177, Frederick and Alexander III were formally reconciled.

But Obama will have to define a clearer US policy, addressing China s rapid rise under an authoritarian regime that aggressively pursues border claims and whips up nationalism at home.

When asked why they do not clarify their claims, my Chinese interlocutors sometimes say that to do so would require difficult political and bureaucratic compromises that would provoke domestic nationalists.

Meanwhile, Asia is being roiled by intensifying territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas, as countries revive old claims against each other.

Knowing of Siamese ambitions over Malacca, Albuquerque sent immediately Duarte Fernandes on a diplomatic mission to the Kingdom of Siam (modern Thailand), where he was the first European to arrive, establishing amicable relations between both kingdoms.

The first and formal answer is that China inherited historical territorial claims, including a map from the Nationalist period that sketches a nine dotted line encompassing virtually the entire South China Sea.

Dynasty of Avis Afonso V of Portugal and Juana la Beltraneja, acclaimed de jure kings of Galicia in 1475, saw their pretensions to the Castilian throne defeated at the Battle of Toro in 1479.

This pattern suggests that the central objective of Chinese leaders visits to India is not to advance cooperation on a shared agenda, but to reinforce China s own interests, beginning with its territorial claims.

His attempt to structure the world of action according to a scheme that focused on order was unacceptable for American sociologists, who were at that time retreating from the grand pretensions of the 1960s to a more empirical, grounded approach.

The Archbishop of Braga, who had suffered the nocturnal theft of the relics of Fructuosus of Braga by Diego Gelmirez in 1102, and the major Portuguese aristocrats who were pursuing a larger territorial authority, gave support to the royal pretensions of Afonso Henriques.

Charles allied himself with his brother Louis the German to resist the pretensions of the new emperor Lothair I, and the two allies defeated Lothair at the Battle of Fontenoy en Puisaye on 25 June 841.

Unlike other members of the Smith family who had at times favored the claims of James J. Strang or William Smith, Emma and her children continued to live in Nauvoo as unaffiliated Latter Day Saints.

But China s leaders have never been clear about the exact location of the nine dotted line, or about whether their claims refer only to certain land features, or also to more extensive continental shelves and seas.